A Module on Time & Date

Robert Kern rkern at ucsd.edu
Wed Jul 27 01:25:40 EDT 2005


Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote:
>>From: Robert Kern <rkern at ucsd.edu>
>>As you can see in the datetime documentation, the module was introduced
>>in Python 2.3. I recommend updating your Python installation.
> 
> What do you mean "your"??

"The one you are using."

> I don't have any Python installation of my
> own. All I have is what this small local ISP provides on its Unix shell
> machine which I share with hundreds of other users. There's no way I
> can install a new version of anything on the system account.
> Your recommendation will be disregarded as total crap. <plonk>

Sensitive, much? If you are going to overreact to well-intentioned but 
apparently unusable advice, then I suggest that you don't ask questions 
here. USENET and, by extension, mailing lists gatewayed to USENET are 
not places for such tender sensibilities.

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
  Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
   -- Richard Harter




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